The First Churchills [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC) | ![The First Churchills [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51G3960051L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: David Giles (iii)
Actors: Susan Hampshire, John Neville, James Villiers, John Westbrook, John Standing
Studio: Acorn Media
Category: DVD
Buy New: £31.49
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 102268
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Colour, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Items: 4
Running Time: 533 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.5 x 2.4
MPN: DAMP7206D
UPC: 054961720699
EAN: 0054961720699
ASIN: B0002RQ0YG
Theatrical Release Date: January 10, 1971
Release Date: September 21, 2004
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Historical drama at its very best November 6, 2004
Paul Magnussen (Campbell, CA USA)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
Anyone seeking to widen their acquaintance with either history or historical drama need look not further than this wonderful BBC set from 1969.
Based on Winston Churchill's Marlborough: His Life and Times, this production is virtually faultless in scripting, acting, direction, costumes and just about everything else. All the settings are completely believable (putting French television's "Les rois maudits" into unfavourable contrast); even the battle scenes are convincingly done, even though the cast is not huge.
But dominating everything is the magnificent performance of Susan Hampshire as Sarah Churchill, which justly won her an Emmy; right now I can't think of more a commanding a performance in any medium, even Paul Scofield's Thomas More. Neither are any of the supporting cast less than first rate -- I must make particular mention of Margaret Tyzack's lonely and rather pathetic Queen Anne, John Standing's lovely sympathetic Sidney Godolphin, and a host of delightfully repulsive political back-stabbers and other minor characters.
I do not have Churchill's huge Marlborough opus to hand, but I do have The History of the English-Speaking Peoples, and in nearly nine hours the only historical error I noticed was a brief glimpse of a lute with machine-heads.
If you loved Elizabeth R and I, Claudius, then this saga of the most brilliant soldier of his day, sandbagged by dim-witted monarchs and spiteful politicians, will not fail to fascinate you too.
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